Flow 1 or 2 Bottle Nipple?

We've had to put LO on enfamil AR. It has rice cereal built into it to help with her severe silent reflux. No medication was helping so this was our last resort after trying several different things. Well her formula is thicker now and she can get it out of a flow 1 nipple but it takes her twice as long and sometimes she won't drink as much because it takes her a while but if we give her the flow 2 nipple she drinks it really fast and then cries for a while because she doesn't realize her tummy is full because she drank it down so quickly. So which size nipple would you use? I don't want her to cut back on how many ounces she is getting in a day but I also don't want her gulping it down so quickly...not sure what the best choice is and could use your input!

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We were also having a fast/slow drinking problem with LO. We use both flow types. When she's on the faster flow we burp her a lot more to slow her down and to give her time to realize when she's full. Not sure how much you're burping her but that might help.

I didn't know they were supposed to be at a 2 by month 3. Thanks for letting me know. I make her bottle ahead of time because the directions say to let it sit and it helps get air bubbles settled. I refrigerate it and by the time she is ready to eat it usually is thinner than if you just made it. What took her 15 minutes to eat now takes 30. Thanks for the suggestions!

I use the Playtex drop in bottles. There is a Slow flow, Medium flow and Fast flow. LO is on medium flow and I too have to give him some rice cereal for reflux. I tried with slow flow but he was sucking so hard to get it out that he got tired and lost interest. Fast flow was just a little too fast for him right now.